Quotes about Certainty

Thanks to God that he gave me stubbornness when I know I am right.

For by a kind of mutual bond the Lord has joined together the certainty of his Word and of his Spirit so that the perfect religion of the Word may abide in our minds when the Spirit, who causes us to contemplate God's face, shines.

The knowledge of faith consists in assurance rather than in comprehension... We add the words "sure and firm" in order to express a more solid constancy of persuasion.

The salvation of all the elect is not less certain than the power of God is invincible.

But however they may sport with its uncertainty, had they to seal their own doctrine with their blood, and at the expense of life, it would be seen what value they put upon it. Very different is our confidence - a confidence which is not appalled by the terrors of death, and therefore not even by the judgment - seat of God.

The word 'hope' I take for faith; and indeed, hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.

For the truth of God is sufficiently solid and certain in itself, and can receive no better confirmation from any other quarter than from itself; but our faith being slender and weak, unless it be supported on every side, and sustained by every assistance, immediately shakes, fluctuates, totters, and falls.

Faith rests not on ignorance, but on knowledge.

because life is not stable except by faith. Let

We are taught that the salvation of all the elect is as certain as that God's power is invincible. Besides

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)

A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.